Chapter 31: The Beginning of the Collapse

Wooden ships are so difficult to sink that even if the people on board don't maintain them and want to sink, it is a long process.

Wu Jin swept across the battlefield and said secretly in his heart: "The Koreans have been defeated. ”

In the melee, the damage of the Ming army was obviously higher than that of the North Korean ships, and the North Korean ships were obviously close to each other in the face of the Ming ships, so that the North Korean soldiers had a feeling of siege when they were engaged in the battle.

And in this city, there is no other siege equipment available, only rope ladders and soft ladders.

Such a rope ladder and soft ladder, when facing the bow bow and arrows, there is no extreme way to fight back, especially in the face of the rain of scattered bullets from the cannon bombardment, it is their nightmarish existence.

In terms of overall numbers, the number of Korean soldiers exceeded that of the Ming army, but it was meaningless to calculate the number of naval battles.

Because every ship is a separate entity.

The entire naval battle can even be divided into individual broadside battles.

Regardless of the number of North Koreans, when they fought, it was more of a battle between one ship and one ship, or one ship against two ships, and the Ming army had large ships and many people. It is in the broadside battle that it has always been at the point of bullying the small with the big and fighting less with the more

It's hard to fail.

Of course, the North Korean army is still combat-ready.

One or two ships were unlucky, first burned by the fire boats, and then several ships approached, and even attacked on the ships, but the Ming sailors were not vegetarians.

It stands to reason that the non-commissioned officers under the command of the chief military officer of the sea are the soldiers transferred from several guards in Shandong, Jiangnan, and Tianjin coastal areas, but the combat effectiveness of the guards is just like that.

Wang Ying escorts millions of stone of grain every year, especially in the case of canal accidents, shipping has become a top priority.

It's good if nothing happens, once something happens, Wang Ying can imagine that he is not the only one who dies, but his entire family will be implicated.

Therefore, Wang Ying spared no effort to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the maritime fleet, and there happened to be an emperor above him who cultivated the transport fleet as a navy.

In terms of armaments, the fleet under the command of the general shipping corps is even higher than the firearms rate of the Beijing battalion. But on top of the personnel, it's much worse.

Wang Ying used two methods, the first method is to recruit, who knows the roots, can fight at sea before pirates, or former sea merchants.

Wang Ying's current fierce general Huang Xiaoyang is from this background.

The second is to acquiesce in crew entrainment.

Every soldier has a little entrainment space, from Jiangnan to Tianjin, or to Tianjin to bring goods to Jiangnan, the vision is accurate, maybe you can make a fortune, the vision is not accurate, as long as you follow the trend, you can also get a few taels of silver.

Therefore, in terms of treatment alone, the more than 10,000 people under the command of the chief military officer of the sea transport may not be worse than that of the Beijing battalion.

Feed the silver, hands

The guy is okay, so he can naturally fight.

When you are at a disadvantage, you can fight to the end, I don't know, but after occupying such a big advantage, there is no problem in beating the enemy.

So the two sides fought fiercely for a day, and in the afternoon, the North Korean fleet finally collapsed.

It's not that the North Korean ships have been able to hold out, but the North Korean sailors and generals seem to know that the people under them are unreliable, so they chose the upwind direction.

Attacking the enemy with the wind is certainly an advantage, but if you want to escape, it is not easy to do.

In the afternoon, after the wind had changed, the mass rout began.

Before, I didn't want to run, but I couldn't.

In a fierce battle in one day, more than 100 large and small ships were captured, with one or two thousand heads, and more heads were taken by the Dragon King. Although it was a big victory, the Ming army was also tired.

Wang Ying ordered to rest on an island. Attack Ganghwa Island again tomorrow.

At this moment, Han Huiming was on Ganghwa Island, and when he went out to fight, there were hundreds of ships, but when he returned to Ganghwa Island, there were less than fifty ships.

Not all of them were sunk by the Ming army.

Instead, a large number of ships ran away with people and boats.

After all, they were all recruited, and seeing that the situation was not good, they naturally had no idea of fighting to the end for the Lord of Shouyang.

After listening to the report, Han Huiming's whole person slumped to the seat, he already had some predictions about the future situation, the naval battle outside Ganghwa Island was the beginning of the collapse of all sides of Korea.

The whole of North Korea is like an egg, squeezed so hard that it does not exceed the capacity of the eggshell. The eggshell will keep the pressure out, and once it is exceeded, even a little bit, the egg will be crushed in an instant.

And this naval battle is the beginning of being crushed.

Han Huiming immediately shook his spirits and said secretly: "No, the matter is not over yet. "In order to repay the kindness of the Lord of Shouyang, even if he knows that this battle is going to be lost, he will fight to the end.

Han Huiming gave up Ganghwa Island and transferred the defenders of Ganghwa Island to defend Seoul.

Although Ganghwa Island is important, Seoul is the foundation of Korea.

In addition, for Li Yao's wife, Han Huiming also had to arrange it in advance. Of course, Li Jin did not forget to inform Li Jin and let him prepare early.

With Han Huiming retreating, the army occupied Ganghwa Island without blood.

The army had no intention of attacking Seoul for a while, for two reasons, the first was that the number of each division was too small, and the second Beijing battalion soldiers were not all seasick, but there were a lot of them, not to mention that there were still a lot of horses.

It is necessary to repair on Ganghwa Island for a period of time before the battle can continue.

Of course, Xu Youzhen was not idle during this period of time, he first wrote an article, scolding Li Yao, disloyal, unfilial, full of evil, and the Ming Dynasty's expedition to North Korea was just to set things right. There is nothing else to do.

Xu Youzhen took her own again

In the name, he wrote a letter to the North Korean officials, and in order to support the Battle of Haixi, Xu Youzhen stayed in North Korea for a year or two.

The whole country of North Korea has great respect for Xu Youzhen, the envoy of the upper country, so Xu Youzhen's network of relationships is dense, and the letters he writes are even more open-minded, as if he is afraid that others will not know.

He is also a naked conspiracy.

Anyone who receives the letter wants to come to Han Huiming to deal with it, after all, if they don't deal with it, what if they make trouble? But what about such a disposition? There are too many people.

Xu Youzhen writes a letter, that is a net of light, as long as there is a one-sided relationship, no, even if it is just heard, Xu Youzhen will write a letter.

But if you just read the letters, you must think that the two sides are sincere and sincere, and it is a lifelong friendship.

In order to suppress the political situation in Seoul, Han Huiming's hands were already stained with blood.

The gap between the interests and grievances of the two sides is greater than that of the Mariana Trench, and the contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable, and both sides are clear about this.

Han Huiming also knew that this was Xu Youzhen's divisive plan, but Xu Youzhen just made the contradictions between the two sides clear.

Killing, the law does not blame the public, and the situation will not be stable.

If you don't kill, if you take a step back, they will take a step forward, and politics is like this, it is a process of eliminating the advantages of one and the other.

Although Han Huiming knew that there was an abyss in front of him, he didn't step into the abyss much, he naturally wanted to kill, but he wouldn't do it himself, but forced some families to kill another part of the family, and then surrendered.

He said that he was loyal to the Lord of Shouyang, no, His Royal Highness the King of Joseon, and had no two hearts.

But if he insisted on not killing, Han Huiming would kill this family.

Facing the entire North Korean two classes of aristocracy. The strength in Han Huiming's hands is weak, after all, most of Li Jin's strength has been brought to the front line.

But in the face of a single family, Han Huiming is still in a state where he can kill whoever he wants.

Thus, in Seoul, a new round of massacres began.

I don't know how many rounds it is.

From the beginning of Li Yao's usurpation of the throne to the present. Seoul has been soaked in the blood of the North Koreans, and to this point, it has already shown that Li Jin has completely bankrupt politically. Killing and terror can only be used to suppress people's hearts.

Killing, like terror, can it suppress people's hearts? The answer, of course, is no.

So this situation will not last long.

After the political defeat, without the support of political forces, Li Jin's military defeat was already inevitable.

And Li Jin himself understands this.

Li Yao's life has entered the countdown. It's just that what can Li Jin do?

What is powerlessness is not doing anything wrong, but no matter how correct the decision, it cannot save the situation.

This is the powerlessness of the heavens.